Question Explorer keeps freezing and requires restart, and choosing "open with" causes lock ups ?

jamesbenstead6

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Mar 19, 2018
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I've started getting a problem where the icons are either wrong of just blank in a folder and on the desktop. Also when i open a folder sometimes the green loading bar at the top takes several minuets to complete and the folder is shown as blank while loading, even if it's only a small folder with a couple of small files in it.

Also, if I right click a file and move the mouse over 'open with' it locks up. If I go into task manager and restart explorer sometimes a couple of the issues go away and then come straight back. I've also just noticed my calculator icon is missing from the taskbar, I can click on the empty space and it loads but no icon on the taskbar. Any ideas?